Answer:
I am longer than a decade and shorter than a millennium
I stay where I am when I go off. What am I?
You shoot me but I don't die. You hang me but I don't die. What am I?
I am mother and father, but never give birth or nurse. I'm rarely still, but I never wander. What am I?
I have a title and many pages. I am a genteel of genteel descent. I am a killer veteran of war. I am a slave to my lord pledged to his service.
Almost everyone needs it, asks for it, gives it. But almost nobody takes it.